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2018 Reflections

This time of the year is about reflection for the blessing, material or otherwise, I have received this year 2018.

Thanks to God!

- For giving me good health to continue with work, family and life balancing.

- For giving me wisdom to talk to people from all walks of life.

- For organizing charity work in Golf.

For my Family

- For graduation of my 1st son into Army.

- For letting my 2nd son travel to Sydney with no hiccups

- For protecting my 3rd boy from serious harm

- For my wife's effort to keep family

- For setting aside amount for stocks outside of work

- For setting aside savings for downpayment in new car.

Thanks to my Work

- For safe travels to sites where I visit.

- For success in the relationship of my new bosses Phil, Jeff and Hubie.

- For visiting new site like Mexico

Live by the sword die by the sword

In roman times this is an expression of how officers and the ruling class rule and govern people

Scripture has also mentioned this as Jesus words in Matthew 26:52--But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword."

If one is a political appointee and made his/her way up thru such process, then dont expect that once the ruling party steps down that a position is still available for the taking.

Unique point of view

People ought to have a unique perspective. After all,we are all created to be unique and different.

Just because majority think its a good way doesnt mean the minority is a bad idea.

Merits ought to be defended.

Top 10 Rules for Success - Sundar Pichai

According to Google CEO.

1. Think next.
2. Empower people, work with them, its ok to feel insecure.
3. Ideas matter, build on them.
4. Take risks, wear as badge of honor even if it fails.
5. Be an optimist. Problems are man made, solutions are man made.
6. Solve problems.
7. Follow your dreams. Get up and run again.
8. Have a good morning routine.
9. Do what you love.
10. Push yourself. 

Leadership Strength

Of all the leadership qualities, honesty and moral strength is the linchpin.

Complete honesty and the ability to be truthful in all your dealings (small or big). Honesty and integrity in the smallest result in honesty and integrity in the biggest. After all, all Big starts out Small. Pay attention to details, because the devil does really dwell on this. Consistency in words and deeds. Letting the yes be yes and the no be no.

On another hand, facing ones enemy (self) is in itself strengthening the moral compass. Having strength does not mean no temptation. It means recognizing temptation to be part of growth and that the ability to handle it matters. (Joseph and Potiphars wife) is a clear scriptural example.

Out with the old, in with the new

Life is all about changes. Today, a new leash of life has been opened. Met my new boss. Thus out with the old and in with the new. Some realizations as I ponder on this change.

1. Nothing new under the sun. No matter how inventive, innovative, cutting edge an idea may seem, it is is only good for its time. Once passe, then a new (old) idea will take over it.

2.  Everyone is dispensable. Hence, no one is indispensable. No matter how big a contribution you make to your company, end of the day you are still but just 1 asset. An employee. A worker. Beholden to shareholders, to stakeholders, to the customer.

3.  Cultivate relationship. After all, when all is said and done, we are all human after a day of work.

4.  Tolerate each other. Strip someone of all whims, fancies, pecularities and one finds a beating heart, a feeling soul. So no matter how rough a person maybe, tolerate him/her. One is appreciated for putting up with.

5. Leave something beyond yourself. When ones tenure is up, whats left is what you have done for someone. Have you defended them? have you coached them? Have they learned a thing or two about your life, your passion, your dreams and aspirations?

6.  When the going gets tough, take a break. No matter how tough a day's work is, there ought to be time to enjoy each others company, lick the wounds, and smell the flowers outside of work.




More to come as I reflect!

Managing Strong Willed Team

As a coach to managing strong willed people, do one thing-

1. Establish early on who is the boss and leader!

As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.

This is how I will describe the state of the country as a new House Speaker Leader is elected.

We never learn. 

CEO

My company has seen a radical change. Was so radical it has shaken the very foundation it was formed over 75 years ago! In the end, it came out strong and principled!

Truth making a comeback

First it was a Duterte. Then a Trump. Now a Mahatir. Seems like a sweeping change of how political institutions are established are making a headway? Or is it? 

Are people tired of all the “talking” that they would like to see more of the “doing”? 

Repost - Mahatirs take on LKY

1. No matter how friendly or unfriendly we are, the passing away of a man you know well saddens you.

2. I cannot say I was a close friend of Kuan Yew. But still I feel sad at his demise.

3. Kuan Yew became well known at a young age. I was a student in Singapore when I read about his defence of labour unions.

4. I first met Kuan Yew when I was a member of Parliament in 1964 after Singapore joined Malaysia in 1963. We crossed swords many time during the debates. But there was no enmity, only differences in our views of what was good for the newborn nation. He included me among the ultra Malays who was responsible for the racial riots in Singapore. Actually I never went to Singapore to stir up trouble. Somebody else whom I would not name did.

5. The Tunku attended the inaugural meeting of the PAP and was quite friendly with Kuan Yew. He believed Kuan Yew was a bastion against Communism. But when the PAP contested in the Malaysian elections in 1964 with Malaysian Malaysia as its slogan, Tunku felt that the PAP’s presence in Malaysia was going to be disruptive for the country.

6. When I became PM in 1981, I paid a courtesy call on Kuan Yew. It was a friendly call and he immediately agreed to my proposal that the Malaysia and Singapore times which had always been the same should be advanced by half an hour. I explained that it would be easier adjusting our time when travelling as we would fall within the time zones fixed for the whole world at one hour intervals.

7. I am afraid on most other issues we could not agree.

8. When I had a heart attack in 1989 and required open heart surgery, he cared enough to ring up my wife to ask her to delay the operation as he had arranged for the best heart surgeon, a Singaporean living in Australia, to do the operation. But by then, I had been given pre-med and was asleep prior to the operation the next day.

9. My wife thanked him but apologized. She promised to ring him up after the operation. She did the next evening.

10. When he was ill, I requested to see him. He agreed but the night before the visit, the Singapore High Commissioner received a message that he was very sick and could not see me.

11. Still when he attended the Nihon Keizai Shimbun annual conference on the Future of Asia in Tokyo, which I never failed to attend, I went up to him at dinner to ask how he was. We sat down together to chat and the Japanese photographers took our pictures promising not to put it in the press. I wouldn’t mind even if they did. But I suppose people will make all kinds of stories about it.

12. Now Kuan Yew is no more. His passage marks the end of the period when those who fought for independence lead their countries and knew the value of independence.

13. Asean lost a strong leadership after President Suharto and Lee Kuan Yew.

Decline of business lunch

Twenty years ago I had the privilege of joining biz lunch in Korea.

Was rather odd to have alcohol during worktime but we did! If only to appease an angry customer and in process win more orders for the company!

Nowadays according to business traveler article, biz lunch is on a decline. Grills in hotels are becoming extinct and worse, gone are the days where deals are inked by wining and dining clients!

21 shakesperean phrases

William Shakespeare devised new words and countless plot tropes that still appear in everyday life. Famous quotes from his plays are easily recognizable; phrases like "To be or not to be," "wherefore art thou, Romeo," and "et tu, Brute?" instantly evoke images of wooden stages and Elizabethan costumes. But an incredible number of lines from his plays have become so ingrained into modern vernacular that we no longer recognize them as lines from plays at all. Here are 21 phrases you use but may not have known came from the Bard of Avon.

1. "WILD GOOSE CHASE" // ROMEO AND JULIET, ACT II, SCENE IV

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"Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five. Was I with you there for the goose?" — Mercutio

This term didn't originally refer to actual geese, but rather a type of horse race.

2. "GREEN-EYED MONSTER" // OTHELLO, ACT III, SCENE III

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"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on." — Iago

Before Shakespeare, the color green was most commonly associated with illness. Shakespeare turned the notion of being sick with jealousy into a metaphor that we still use today.

3. "PURE AS THE DRIVEN SNOW" // HAMLET, ACT III, SCENE I AND THE WINTER'S TALE, ACT IV, SCENE IV

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"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go." — Hamlet

"Lawn as white as driven snow." — Autolycus

Though Shakespeare never actually used the full phrase "pure as the driven snow," both parts of it appear in his work. For the record, this simile works best right after the snow falls, and not a few hours later when tires and footprints turn it into brown slush.

4. "SEEN BETTER DAYS" // AS YOU LIKE IT, ACT II, SCENE VII

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"True is it that we have seen better days and have with holy bell been knolled to church, and sat at good men's feasts and wiped our eyes of drops that sacred pity hath engendered." — Duke Senior

The first recorded use of "seen better days" actually appeared in Sir Thomas More in 1590, but the play was written anonymously, and is often at least partially attributed to Shakespeare. We do know Shakespeare was a fan of the phrase; he uses "seen better days" in As You Like It, and then again in Timon of Athens.

5. "OFF WITH HIS HEAD" // RICHARD III, ACT III, SCENE IV

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"If? Thou protector of this damnèd strumpet, talk'st thou to me of "ifs"? Thou art a traitor—Off with his head." — Richard III

The Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland wasn't the first monarch with a penchant for liberating heads from bodies. Her famous catchphrase came from Shakespeare first.

6. "FOREVER AND A DAY" // AS YOU LIKE IT, ACT IV, SCENE I

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"Now tell me how long you would have her after you have possessed her." — Rosalind

"Forever and a day" — Orlando

We have the Bard to thank for this perfect fodder for Valentine's Day cards and middle school students' love songs.

7. "GOOD RIDDANCE" // TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ACT II, SCENE I

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[Thersites exits]

"A good riddance." — Patroclus

Where would Green Day be without Shakespeare’s riposte? In addition to acoustic ballad titles, "good riddance" also applies well to exes, house pests (both human and insect), and in-laws.

8. "FAIR PLAY" // THE TEMPEST, ACT V, SCENE I

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"Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, and I would call it fair play." — Miranda

Prospero's daughter never would have been able to predict that "fair play" is used more often now in sports than it is for the negotiation of kingdoms.

9. "LIE LOW" // MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ACT V, SCENE I

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"If he could right himself with quarreling, some of us would lie low." — Antonio

Shakespeare's plays contain brilliant wisdom that still applies today. In "lie low," he concocted the perfect two-word PR advice for every celebrity embroiled in a scandal.

10. "IT'S GREEK TO ME" // JULIUS CAESAR, ACT I, SCENE II

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"Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the face again: but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me." — Casca

"It's all Greek to me” might possibly be the most intelligent way of telling someone that you have absolutely no idea what's going on.

11. "AS GOOD LUCK WOULD HAVE IT" // THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ACT III, SCENE V

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“As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.” — Falstaff

Determining whether a Shakespeare play is a comedy or a tragedy can largely be boiled down to whether good luck would have anything for the characters.

12. "YOU'VE GOT TO BE CRUEL TO BE KIND" // HAMLET, ACT III, SCENE IV

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"So, again, good night. I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind." — Hamlet

Here’s an idiom that proves just because a character in a Shakespeare play said it doesn't necessarily mean it's always true. Hamlet probably isn't the best role model, especially given the whole accidentally-stabbing-someone-behind-a-curtain thing.

13. "LOVE IS BLIND" // THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, ACT II, SCENE VI

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"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit, for if they could Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformèd to a boy." — Jessica

Chaucer actually wrote the phrase ("For loue is blynd alday and may nat see") in The Merchant’s Tale in 1405, but it didn't become popular and wasn't seen in print again until Shakespeare wrote it down. Now, "love is blind" serves as the three-word explanation for any seemingly unlikely couple.

14. "BE-ALL, END-ALL" // MACBETH, ACT I, SCENE VII

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"If the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch with his surcease success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we’d jump the life to come." — Macbeth

Macbeth uses the phrase just as he’s thinking about assassinating King Duncan and, ironically, as anyone who's familiar with the play knows, the assassination doesn't turn out to be the "end all" after all.

15. "BREAK THE ICE" // THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, ACT I, SCENE II

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"If it be so, sir, that you are the man must stead us all, and me amongst the rest, and if you break the ice and do this feat, achieve the elder, set the younger free for our access, whose hap shall be to have her will not so graceless be to be ingrate." — Tranio (as Lucentio)

If you want to really break the ice, the phrase appears to have come from Thomas North, whose translation of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans provided much of the inspiration for Shakespeare's ancient word plays. This is a great meta "did you know" fact for getting to know someone at speed dating.

16. "HEART OF GOLD" // HENRY V, ACT IV, SCENE I

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"The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold, a lad of life, an imp of fame, of parents good, of fist most valiant." — Pistol

Turns out, the phrase "heart of gold" existed before Douglas Adams used it as the name of the first spaceship to use the Infinite Improbability Drive in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

17. "KILL WITH KINDNESS" // THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, ACT IV, SCENE 1

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"This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, and thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humor." — Petruchio

The Shakespeare canon would contain a lot fewer dead bodies if his characters all believed they should kill their enemies with kindness instead of knives and poison.

18. "KNOCK, KNOCK! WHO'S THERE?" // MACBETH, ACT II, SCENE III

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"Knock, knock! Who's there, in th' other devil’s name?" — Porter

Though high school students suffering through English class may disagree, Shakespeare was a master of humor in his works, writing both slapstick comedy and sophisticated wordplay. And, as the Porter scene in Macbethillustrates, he's also the father of the knock-knock joke.

19. "LIVE LONG DAY" // JULIUS CAESAR, ACT I, SCENE I

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"To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat the livelong day with patient expectation to see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome." — Mureless

Today, the phrase "live long day" is pretty much exclusively reserved for those who have been working on the railroad.

20. "YOU CAN HAVE TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING" // AS YOU LIKE IT, ACT IV, SCENE I

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"Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?— Come, sister, you shall be the priest and marry us.—Give me your hand, Orlando.—What do you say, sister?" — Rosalind

Modern readers often call Shakespeare a visionary, far ahead of his time. For example: he was able to write about desiring too much of a good thing 400 years before chocolate-hazelnut spread was widely available.

21. "THE GAME IS AFOOT" // HENRY V, ACT III, SCENE I

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"The game's afoot: follow your spirit, and upon this charge cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'" — King Henry V

Nope! It wasn't Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who coined this phrase—Sherlock Holmes' most famous catchphrase comes from Henry V, although both characters do often tend to find themselves around dead bodies.

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Powerful speech

Mr. Nethanyahu said:

Only 70 years ago! The Jews were taken to slaughter like sheep.

> 60 years ago!

> no country. No Army.

Seven Arab countries declared war on the small Jewish state, only a few hours after its creation!

> we were 650 Jews against the rest of the Arab world!

NO IDF (Israel Defense Army).

No powerful air force, only brave people with nowhere to go.

> Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia

> all attacked at the same time.

> the country that the United Nations gave us was a 65 % desert.

> the country is out of nowhere!

> 35 years ago! We fought the three armies most

> Powerful in the middle east, and we swept them in six days.

We fought against various coalitions of Arab countries, which had modern armies and many Soviet weapons, and we have always beaten them!

Today we have:

> a country,

> an army,

> a powerful air force,

> A State-of-the-Art Economy, which exports millions of dollars.

> Intel - Microsoft - ibm develops products at home.

> our doctors receive awards for medical research.

> we make the desert bloom, and sell oranges, flowers and vegetables all over the world.

> Israel has sent its own satellites into space!

> three satellites at the same time!

> We are proud to be at the same rank as:

> The United States, which has 250 million inhabitants,

> Russia, which has 200 million inhabitants,

> China, which has 1.3 billion inhabitants;

> Europeans - France, Great Britain, Germany - with 350 million inhabitants.

> the only countries in the world to send objects into space!

> Israel is now part of the family of the nuclear powers,

> with the United States, Russia, China, India, France, and

> Great Britain.

> (we have never officially admitted it, but everyone knows it)

> and say that only 60 years ago,

> we were LED, ashamed and hopeless, to slaughter!

> we have extirpés the smoking ruins of Europe,

> we have won our wars here with less than nothing

> we built our little "Empire" from nothing.

Who's Hamas to scare me?

> to terrify me?

> you make me laugh!

> Passover was celebrated;

> Let's not forget what this is about.

> we survived Pharaoh,

> we survived the Greeks,

> we survived the Romans,

> we survived the inquisition in Spain,

> we have the pogroms in Russia,

> we survived Hitler,

> we survived the Germans,

> we survived the Holocaust,

> we survived the armies of seven Arab countries,

> we survived saddam.

> we will survive the enemies present

Think of any time in human history!

Think about it, for us, the Jewish people,

> the situation has never been better!

> then let's face the world,

Let us remember:

> all nations or cultures

> who once tried to destroy us,

> no longer exist today - while we still live!

> Egypt?

> the Greeks?

> Alexander of Macedonia?

> the Romans? (does anyone still speak Latin these days? )

> The Third Reich?

> and look at us,

> The Bible Nation,

> The slaves of Egypt,

> We are still here,

And we speak the same language!

> then, and now!

> Arabs don't know yet,

> but they will learn that there is a God.

> as long as we keep our identity, we are forever.

So forgive us for not worrying,

> not to cry,

> not to be afraid.

> things are fine here.

> they could certainly get better,

However:

> Don't believe the media,

> they don't tell you

> parties continue to take place,

> people continue to live,

> people keep coming out,

> people continue to see friends.

Yes, our morale is low.

> so what?

Only because we mourn our deaths while others rejoice in the blood shed.

> that is why we will win, in the end.

Never sleep or sleep the guardian of Israel! Yahweh God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Forward this speech to the whole community,

> and to people around the world.

> they are part of our strength

Share on your walls with your friends

Inside OUT - Best way to motivate people!

Sharing a Consistent Story in the Market … Starts on the Inside.

We talk a lot about the value and importance of infusing your corporate story into your culture and customer experience. It is the process by which leading companies secure a clear position in the market and in the minds of their customers. So, you probably understand why your biggest advocates “must be” your employees — telling one consistent story inside and outside of your organization. And while all business leaders want their company to share a clear, compelling and consistent story in the market — very few do what it takes to make it actually happen. So the question is … what does it take? How do you get employees to deeply understand and embrace the true meaning behind your story? How do you get employees to consistently bring that story to life? Well, it all starts on the inside. You must establish employee “buy-in” through intentional and sustained internal communications and educational programs that leverage proven learning techniques. You also need to provide your employees with the knowledge, content and tools required to personalize, internalize and apply the story in everyday business situations. Here are a few tips for converting your employees into true messaging evangelists: Personalization. You have to tell employees what’s in it for them. You must convey the strategic rationale behind your story and how it relates to their daily work activities. Employees who understand the big picture and connect that perspective with their individual responsibilities are more likely to activate your story in daily interactions with customers and team members. Internalization. Your goal is to ensure employees internalize your story. This means helping them connect the messaging with real situations they will experience on the job. Make it real and relevant to the activities they participate in every day with other employees and customers. Application. Let your team know what is expected of them when they return to their daily routine — and educate them on how to apply the new messaging and tools they can use to put the story into play (marketing materials, sales enablement tools, etc.). As our team says, “It’s not what they learn, it’s what they use.” By integrating this personalization, internalization and application approach into sustained internal communications and education programs, you’ll be sure to create messaging ambassadors across your organization. But remember, it all starts with an “inside-out” state of mind. That’s Your OnMessage Minute.

No more error - march 2013

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. We may not realize it but we are indeed at the crossroad in time where we can do something somehow now.

What lies ahead maybe fraught with difficult and arduos path. But the light at the end of the tunmel gives us hope to press on.

I imagine the day when there are no more errors

I imagine the day when all the products we ship will work the first time everytime.

I imagine the day when our stakeholders and customers sends us complements instead of complaints.

I imagine the day when the word Texas Instruments does not only connote great products but great service as well.

These things we can achieve.

Like the golden gate bridge which stands majestic,strong and stable. Your work within and among your team will unleash creative potentials and bridge 2 worlds cementing the strong ties ever more.

Like the eiffel tower which stands on strong and stable foundation. Your passion for zero error or zero defect is the very foundation of what we do and how we do it.

Like the finely carved crystal which enties beauty elegance and style. We stamp out work with pride and perfection, something that will be forever etched in our customers mind.

I believe in zero defect culture.

I believe that every detail, every process, every component, every team which delivers its promises can attain this way of life. And i see us moving in this direction, if not already.

After all, extraordinary achievements are made by ordinary people doing something extra. Ordinary people like you and i who aspire for a better tomorrow.

Ordinary people like you and I who dream of better products and services. Ordinary people like you and I whose work speaks volumes about our characters.

No more error. This is the world we live in tomorrow.

No more defects. These are the products we use tomorrow.

No more excuses. This is the work ethic I know deep inside our hearts long for.

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. This is the way we make a difference in our work, our family and our customers.

Lets press on! 

Doctor to the barrio

Anyone can be a doctor to the barrio. Like a doctor one needs to diagnose the ills of the barrio and prescribe a or many solutions to these ills.

Life, Sports and Business - 2018 Reflection

These are my thoughts as I rummage thru the beginning parts of 2018. Im sure all of you can relate that there are starked similarities between successful people, successful sportsmen and successful businessmen. The measure of success Im referring to is obviously wealth.

But in order to be successful, the fundamental principles of it all are as follows-

1. Motivation - find out what motivates a person, is it money, is it fame, is it the idea of helping others? Nothing can beat a truth based motivation like helping others become successful.

2. Discipline - this is the bedrock of success. Especially the discipline in the handling of small things.  Habits like waking up early, taking a shower, doing the little petty things regularly almost mechanically help us achieve the bigger things. Again, bigger things are made up of small things. Do the small things well and this will lead you to a great path. 

3. Rules - obey authority. Be under the subject of authority. Scripture is clear on this too.

Obey Those in Authority
13 All of you must obey those who rule over you. There are no authorities except the ones God has chosen. Those who now rule have been chosen by God. 2 So whoever opposes the authorities opposes leaders whom God has appointed. Those who do that will be judged. 3 If you do what is right, you won’t need to be afraid of your rulers. But watch out if you do what is wrong! You don’t want to be afraid of those in authority, do you? Then do what is right, and you will be praised. 4 The one in authority serves God for your good. But if you do wrong, watch out! Rulers don’t carry a sword for no reason at all. They serve God. And God is carrying out his anger through them. The ruler punishes anyone who does wrong. 5 You must obey the authorities. Then you will not be punished. You must also obey them because you know it is right.

4. ATTITUDE - positive attitude wins all the time. When one is pessimist, then one is not able to move on from the past. But when one is positive, he or she is able to overcome any problems thrown at him or her.